There are restaurants here that add 15% to your bill for their staffs health insurance. Fuck that! You want to give them health coverage, Good for you. But add it to the price of every menu item and post large signage telling customers of the 15% tax for your employees health insurance!
I will decide whether to dine at your establishment and pay that extra cost. It shouldn't be a surprise on the bill! Oh, Yes they still expect a tip!
I once had a shitty bartender at a Minneapolis bar called the 7Th street entry, which was part of 1st Avenue bar. 7th street entry Bar was really dead and the chick bartender was slow as fuck to serve us. Now normally we tipped. But, we waited 10 minutes for her to take our 1st round order. She literally stood at far end of the bar and ignored us. We didn't tip her for our tap beers. I go back up to the bar to get another drink. She does the same slow shit. She finally walks over to me. 1st thing out of her mouth is, customers normally tip. I Reply with. You want a tip? She says yes!
I said, here is your tip, Don't stare directly into the sun! She stared at me for 15 seconds. Then says, Your cut off. I'm not serving you!
I laughed and said no problem. Went out in to the main bar in 1st avenue and got my drinks from there for the rest of the night.
The 7th street entry was great for music. You would see 5 or more bands a night. You never knew what would be on stage. From punk to country and everything in between!